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I have a general question about USB connections and paths. I expect to be building, or poossibly buying a new high end machine around the end of this year. It will replace the computer in my primary system. I plan on staying with Windows XP 32 SP2, or whatever the latest SP may be. I'm not...

Normally, when I'm using external USB hard drives and the like, when I want to disconnect of of them while Windows is running, I click on the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the Taskbar, select the device involved, click on it, and then proceed to unplug the device. Windows does not give me a...

I'm running a high end machine with XP - SP2, and noted the following. When I boot up, there is momentary text screen that flashes by, noting "Invalid boot.ini file, booting from C:\WINNT". But, the machine then boots normally. I checked the WINNT folder, and the root of C;\ and there is no...

I have the Knoppix CD to boot into Linux, with full access to all my usual system devices, and files. I've been advised that XP's System Restore cannot be run from the Linux CD boot. I recognize that when "problems" do arise, that bootup using "last good configuration" will generally get the...

I'm running an NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4600 128 MB video card, with the latest drivers, and using a SONY GDM-FW900 monitor at 1600x1024. I have a desktop display problem, which appeared after I attempted to change various system display settings, to hopefully correct a situatuion re the ruler's...

Lately there have been several high end programs, such as Phothshop CS2 which have displayed a strange situation in a dialog box. There will be a checkbox, with text to the right. But the text is partially hidden. With two lines, the upper half of the top line, and the lower half of the bottom...

I've been planning on geting a new system around the end of this year - a very high end desktop. I don't play games, and probably the only software that I use that can really make use of many of the "new featurers" in the new CPU's, and expected new Windows versions is Photoshop CS. I plan on...

When I click on a link to download and view a PDF file in IE6, the file does not seem to download for viewing, but now freezes up IE6. I'm running XP, with SP2, and all patches to date, on a high end machine. If I right click on the link, and save the PDF file, that presents no problem, and it...

In recent times, there have been some printing problems related to the borders, and headers & footers, when printing out WEB pages from IE 6 in Windows XP. I normally set the borders to 0.5" all around in the page setup window in IE. In times past, this was fine, and the complete page would...

I'm running Windows XP, and have version 6 of QuickTime. Very often I'm on a site where QT movies are available. Sometimes, one can right-click on the movie, and save the file to hard disk. Other times, one can only left click, and have the movie play. But, since in order to play the movie, one...

I finally solved a problem where QuickTime wouldn't load, and I got the strange error message "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk2\DR5" This was related to a USB media reader that was installed. Taking it off line solved the problem. The next issue...

A few days ago I suddenly starting getting an error message when I tried to load QuickTime ver 4. I'm running XP and all the latest patches and updates. The message was "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk2\DR5" Assuming that my older version 4 had...

It seemed that I was just getting too many automatic updates for Windows XP Home, so I checked things. I discovered that "823559: Security Update for Microsoft Windows" had attempted to install itself over 12 times and failed. But via the autoupdate route, there was never a message...

My Win2K machine had 2 IBM 75 GB Deskstar drives in a RAID 0 striped config, and one finally bit the dust. I'll be replacing both of them with 2 WD 120 GB drives. The IBM drives used a Promise RAID card which is installed in the machine. I'm going to get rid of the RAID 0 striped, and set them...

Outlook Express 6 in Win XP Home has developed a strange bug. I have set TOOLS>OPTIONS>SECURITY to "not allow attachemnts to be saved or opened..... etc.". I have that checkbox checked. But, when messages with attachments do come through, the attachments are not greyed out as they...

In "Levels" and "Curves", there are 3 eyedroppers for black, white, and gray. Actually, these eyedroppers can be set for any user color by setting the desired levels of the RGB, CMYK, ...etc. choices offered. I would like to see a user defined larger group of choices, where...

I must be overlooking something, but the "system restore" feature in XP SP1 seems to be doing something strange. Each time I call for a new restore point to be established, the previous one gets wiped out. I have the available HD space for restore points set to maximum, which come out...

Photoshop 7 has a wonderful new "browser" for viewing and opening images. The default folder that opens in the browser is totally unpredictable. When I first started using the browser, it would default to "My documents", and then for a while it opened to the last used folder...

I have an HP LJIII as one of 5 printers connected to my very high end machine running XP Home. (2.4 GHz P4, 1 GB RAM, 240 GB of HD space) plus all the bells and whistles. Each printer has its own reason for being there. The LJII has 3 MB of RAM, and is presently connected via a USB/LPT1...

I'm running XP HE, and am the only user running the system. There is no password required, and in general, all is well. I had difficulty with Drive Image, and couldn't access the image files that I had generated to look them over in a file manager window in Drive Image -I got an error message...